How transforming SA’s mobile data landscape is key to unlocking digital opportunities for the African continent During the 2020 State of the Nation Address, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced increased efforts to reduce the price of South Africa’s pre-paid monthly data bundles. These efforts are focused on introducing data price discounts across the country’s mobile network...

We are delighted to share with you that we have once again partnered up with MTN and Airtel in Nigeria to give you more free browsing with Opera Mini and Opera News.  If you are using the MTN or Airtel network and you have the latest version of Opera Mini and Opera News installed on...

Microloans are small loans offered to people over a shorter period of time, typically without providing any form of security for the lender and often without requiring a credit history from the recipient. They are very similar to credit cards, but are more widely available, especially in markets where a majority of the population is...

Last year our team flew to Lagos, Nigeria to meet some Opera users. We wanted to hear about their first interactions with the web and how Opera Mini has helped them as a valuable source of information in different aspects of life such as school, work and community. We met with Tochi, a 25-year-old student...

The start of a new decade is here and we are kicking it off with unique offers for our Opera users in Nigeria.  Following our recent free browsing promotion, we have teamed up with MTN to bring three special data plans to Opera Mini and Opera News users on the MTN network. The data plans...

The end of the year is just around the corner and at Opera we are ready to celebrate it with you. To do so, from December 29th , users in Nigeria subscribed to the MTN and Airtel network will be able to browse for free with Opera Mini and Opera News right away after opening...

Following the launch of Opera News Hub and two successful rounds of revenue payment to writers on the user generated content  platform, the names of the top contributors and top performing articles for November 2019 is now available to the public. All the writers featured on the list will each receive the sum of $100...

Hello everyone,  We are thrilled to share with you our latest experience in Lagos, Nigeria where last Sunday we held a press conference to announce the launch of Opera News Hub. Opera’s new content platform allows authors to create original online content and share it with Opera’s user base of 350 million people. The press...

We are happy to announce that Bayo Oluphunda, the award winning digital journalist, editor and author, has joined Opera to become the editor-in-chief of Opera News in Nigeria.  Opera News is among the fastest growing News Apps in the world, and became the world’s most downloaded News app in the second quarter of 2019. With...